AIX

Maybe this is the wrong forum, but...

after upgrading one of our HMCs from 7.3.5 to 7.7.5 we detected two problems:
- older problem files ( /info/en_US/eclipse/plugins/p7eai/heapdump... , /opt/ccfw/data/vr ) are not deleted by chhmcfs
- HMC-scheduled backups via ftp to our nim-server don't run anymore (the HMC-scheduler calls a backup script with too few arguments, so the argument list is incomplete)

Somebody experienced the same (or other) bugs ?

Hi

I am planning to upgrade my two HMC's from 7.3.5 to 7.7.5 thisweek. I wondered

a) did you upgrade direct from 7.3.5 to 7.7.5 , was it a smooth process?
b) did you manage to resolve the issues you were having ?

Thanks

Update was from HMC 7.3.5 SP4 to 7.7.5 + MH01312 (cumulative fix), it worked well, since then, we've not seen any other problem.

We resolved our issue by changing the HMC scheduled backup to a remote-initiated, script-driven backup by our nim-server (triggered by a company scheduling solution).
The script runs ssh to hmc with "bkconsdata" under a new HMC-user with operations-rights and ssh-keys exchanged (s. IBM Techdoc TD101248)

We detected the wrong routine call for HMC-scheduled backups (not for target DVD, just FTP & NFS) in a log file /var/hsc/log/backuphdr.log , which displayed the third input parameter as <"">. It seems, the HMC scheduled backup called a script with an unexpected and empty parameter. Since we don't have a hardware contract with IBM for the machine, we decided to change the backup procedure - and get indeed a more reliable way by our well-supervised company scheduling system